“Can God play a significant game with his own creature? Can any creator, even a limited one, play a significant game with his own creature?”

—N ORBERT W IENER , God and Golem, Inc .

“… May there not be superior beings amused with any graceful, though instinctive attitude my mind may fall into, as I am entertained with the alertness of a Stoat or the anxiety of a Deer? Though a quarrel in the streets is a thing to be hated, the energies displayed in it are fine … By a superior being our reasonings may take the same tone—though erroneous they may be fine— This is the very thing in which consists poetry …”

—J OHN K EATS , in a letter to his brother

“The Imagination may be compared to Adam’s dream—he awoke and found it truth.”

—J OHN K EATS , in a letter to a friend q7RyW821LIEJMphkN9MBmJoV6lf+RDk+e7SfUDD8TkwSDwk7V1nHpBcHgaAOotKu